Arbeitspapier
Immigration, Housing Discrimination and Employment
We use a new dataset on eight Italian cities and a novel identification strategy to analyze the relationship between the employment status of migrants and the percentage of migrants living nearby. Our data contain information at the very local level (i.e. the residential block) and are representative of the population of both legal and illegal migrants. Identification is based on an instrumental variable strategy that exploits the physical characteristics of the local buildings as a source of exogenous variation in the incidence of migrants in each location. We find evidence that migrants who reside in areas with a high concentration of non-Italians are less likely to be employed compared to similar migrants who reside in more mixed areas. This penalty is higher if the migrants leaving nearby are illegal and it is not mitigated by living close to migrants who are from own's ethnic group nor who are more proficient in the Italian language. The employment prospects of natives do not appear to be affected by the vicinity of migrants.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 14/14
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Thema
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Immigrant residential density
housing discrimination
ethnic networks
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Boeri, Tito
De Philippis, Marta
Patacchini, Eleonora
Pellizzari, Michele
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
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London
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2014
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Boeri, Tito
- De Philippis, Marta
- Patacchini, Eleonora
- Pellizzari, Michele
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Entstanden
- 2014